8 Quick Ways to Organize Your Kitchen This Spring

Keep your kitchen counters clutter-free by hanging up the kitchen utensils and tools you use the most, like in this Scandinavian-inspired kitchen designed by Susan Serra in New York.

Victoria Pearson

2. Label Baskets and Other Storage Boxes

You're one step closer to an organized space with storage baskets and boxes, but take it to the next level and put labels on them so you know exactly where everything is. In this Los Angeles kitchen designed by Chris Barrett, baskets help organize the pantry.

Photo by Dominique Vorillon

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3. Install Smart Open Shelving

Open shelves make life a lot easier by putting your most-used items within reach. If you're thinking about adding them to your kitchen, install ones with plate racks and other helpful niches so everything has a resting place, like in this Napa Valley kitchen designed by Erin Martin.

Laura Moss

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4. Put Up a Chalkboard

Since the kitchen is almost always the command center of the home, it's the perfect place to display notes, reminders, and shopping and to-do lists. Your busy family (and sanity) will thank you for hanging up a chalkboard in the space. In designer Nicole Hough's New Jersey kitchen, she makes her lists on the custom steel chalkboard panels on the fridge doors.

Annie Schlechter

5. Hang Pots and Pans

If your cabinets are overfilled, hang your pots and pans. Clean-freaks, don't stress too much about them collecting dust — if you use them daily, you won't have a problem. An antique pot rack frees up cupboard space in Sheila Bridges's small New York City kitchen.

Jason Donnelly

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6. Consider a Pull-Out Pantry

Customize your cabinets by adding pull-out baskets to keep kitchen accessories and more in order and within reach. In this Des Moines, Iowa, kitchen, a space-saving pullout serves as the snack station.

Trevor Tondro

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7. Think Upward

If you don't want to put up shelves, try placing a storage unit on your countertop. An open shelving unit adds more storage, but doesn't take up too much floor – or visual – space. An antique étagère placed on the counter of Mary Jo Bochner's Savannah, Georgia, kitchen holds books and bowls.

Annie Schlechter

8. Declutter Your Drawers

Adding inserts and drawer dividers will keep your drawers organized, like in Julie Stevenson's Lake Bluff, Illinois, kitchen. Toss out the miscellaneous items and sort the rest — guaranteed you won't spend any of your precious time rummaging through every drawer for that one item anymore.

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